Title: Japan's administrative eliteAuthor: Koh, Byung CholPublished: University of California Press, 1991Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: A major player in Japanese society is its government bureaucracy. Neither Japan's phenomenal track record in the world marketplace nor its remarkable success in managing its domestic affairs can be understood without insight into how its government bureaucracy works - how its elite administrators ar . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Japan under construction: corruption, politics, and public worksAuthor: Woodall, BrianPublished: University of California Press, 1996Subjects: Politics | JapanPublisher's Description: In 1987, Japan excluded American firms from bidding on the multibillion-dollar New Kansai International Airport, sparking yet another trade dispute between the United States and Japan. The State Department, Congress, and the President himself were caught up in the dispute, which still smolders even . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Yakuza: Japan's criminal underworldAuthor: Kaplan, David E 1955-Published: University of California Press, 2003Subjects: Sociology | Japan | Politics | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong - more than four times the size of the American Mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Importing diversity: inside Japan's JET ProgramAuthor: McConnell, David L 1959-Published: University of California Press, 2000Subjects: Anthropology | Japan | Politics | EducationPublisher's Description: In 1987, the Japanese government inaugurated the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program in response to global pressure to "internationalize" its society. This ambitious program has grown to be a major government operation, with an annual budget of $400 million (greater than the United States NEA . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Postwar Japan as historyAuthor: Gordon, Andrew 1952-Published: University of California Press, 1993Subjects: History | Politics | Japan | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors des . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920Author: Smith, Thomas C. (Thomas Carlyle) 1916-Published: University of California Press, 1989Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern Japan by one of the most eminent historians of Japan in this country. Gathered together for the first time and made accessible to students and scholars, Professor Smith's essays a . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Mirror of modernity: invented traditions of modern JapanAuthor: Vlastos, Stephen 1943-Published: University of California Press, 1998Subjects: History | Japan | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and insular past. Building on the pathbreaking historical analysis of British traditions, The Invention of Tradition , sixteen American and Japanese scholars examine "age- . . . [more]Similar Items